Sentences with phrase «public health research professor»

Children are highly receptive to marketing, says University of Maryland, College Park, public health research professor Dina Borzekowski, who led this year's study of five - and six - year - olds.

«Many studies deserve praise for being the first of their kind, but if we actually began relying on the claims made by big data surveillance in public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the study.

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Steven Blair, a professor of public health at the University of South Carolina, came to a similar conclusion in another research study in May 2010.

«Research suggests that these community social connections are as important for resilience to disaster is as physical material like disaster kits or medical supplies,» explained Ichiro Kawachi, a professor of social epidemiology at Harvard's School of Public Health.

It's attributed to a research team called the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, and the corresponding author is Majid Ezzati, a Professor at Imperial College's School of Public Health.

«This is a vital new technology for public health,» said Professor Vivek Goel, Vice President, Research and Innovation at the University of Toronto.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

Carol L Wagner, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina Carol L Wagner, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Chemical Society, American Medical Womens Association, American Public Health Association, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, American Society for Nutrition, Massachusetts Medical Society, National Perinatal Association, Society for Pediatric Research Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

So new technologies are always going to catch our eyes, and parents are always going to be tempted to buy the newest, biggest, best thing,» says Dawn Comstock, a professor at University of Colorado's School of Public Health and a leading voice on concussion research.

«We just don't have enough data to advise women on the risks of breast milk sharing, and that's one of the reasons why this research is so important,» said Keim, who is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in The Ohio State University College of Medicine and of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health.

Although awareness has increased about sports concussions, little research has been done on middle school athletes, especially girls, noted study co-author Dr. Melissa Schiff, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle.

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Dan Albert is the Emmett A. Humble Distinguished Director of the Eye Research Institute, Professor and Chair Emeritus, the F. A. Davis Professor, and the Lorenz E. Zimmerman Professor in the Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Department of the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Professor Sir Nicholas Wald, a co-author from Queen Mary, who conducted the original research showing the protective effect of folic acid said: «It's a public health tragedy that in spite of the folic acid fortification initiative in many countries, the UK has not introduced mandatory folic acid fortification.

«Unexpectedly, in elementary school - age participants we found that overall eating frequency and snacks positively contributed to diet quality,» wrote Evans and colleagues from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, where Evans did the research under the guidance of senior author Aviva Must, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine..

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

Vogl and co-author Marcos Rangel, assistant professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, detailed their findings in a working paper titled «Agricultural Fires and Infant Health» released online in December by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The research team — led by professor Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connresearch team — led by professor Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in ConnResearch and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connecticut.

Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delhealth policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delHealth and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delHealth Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.

«We show that high dietary saturated fat content is associated with increased prostate cancer aggressiveness,» said Emma H. Allott, PhD, a research assistant professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

«I have a lot of confidence that [Price] understands and supports the research mission and I hope that he will continue to do so,» says Michael M.E. Johns, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon who was the dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and the chancellor of Emory University in Atlanta, and who is now a professor in Emory's schools of medicine and public health.

The School of Public Health's view was that the drilling was clearly emitting carcinogens and that sooner or later this would lead to problems, according to Roxana Witter, an assistant research professor at the Colorado School of Public Health and the lead author of the study.

«We need to know where there are inadequacies in these surveys to identify nutrition and food policy and research needs,» said the study's corresponding author, Mary Cluskey, an associate professor in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences and a registered dietitian.

The research, conducted by Leah Schinasi, PhD, assistant research professor, and Ghassan Hamra, PhD, assistant professor, both of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health, was published in the Journal of Urban Health and used a decade's worth of crime data in Philadelphia (from 2006 until 2015) to find that rates of violent crime and disorderly conduct increased when daily temperatures are higher.

«All of the approved helmets evaluated in our study performed similarly,» said Dawn Comstock, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor of epidemiology at the Program for Injury Prevention, Education and Research (PIPER) at the Colorado School of Public Health.

Ranjana Mehta, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Texas A&M School of Public Health, researched freshman high school students with who used standing desks.

«Our research explores a novel approach to treating mite allergy in which specially - encapsulated miniscule particles are administered with sequences of bacterial DNA that direct the immune system to suppress allergic immune responses,» says Peter Thorne, public health professor at the UI and a contributing author on the paper.

«Ninety - four percent of chronic conditions, like pneumoconiosis, weren't captured by the Part 50 program,» said Kirsten Almberg, research assistant professor of environmental and occupational health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health and a co-author on the health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health and a co-author on the Health and a co-author on the paper.

The journal Atmospheric Environment published the research, led by Eri Saikawa, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University and in the Department of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health.

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

«Pyrethroids are obviously a safer alternative to organophosphates, but just because they are safer doesn't mean they are safe,» said Dana Boyd Barr, a research professor of environmental health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Gehealth at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GeHealth in Atlanta, Georgia.

Professor Hywel Williams, Director of the NIHR's Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme, says: «We are delighted to have funded this study in an area of research that is important to the public and medical professionals.

Professor Bourne, Professor of Ophthalmology at Anglia Ruskin University's Vision and Eye Research Unit, said: «Vision impairment is of great importance for quality of life and for the socioeconomics and public health of societies and countries.

«People have a hard time seeing research related to health risks as legitimate if done with a corporate partner,» said John Besley, lead author and an associate professor who studies the public's perception of science.

The research led by Professor Helena Teede and Dr Anju Joham, from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University analysed a large - scale epidemiological study, called the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health, which revealed the findings.

If the findings of the study are replicated in other animal models, such as pigs, they could have considerable implications for public health, says Oluf Pedersen, professor of genomic medicine at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen.

«You shouldn't be testing everybody, but if there are reasons to believe that a test for H. pylori may come back positive, and it does come back positive, you should go on to treat,» says Dr. Traci Murakami, previous gastroenterology fellow at the UA and graduate of the clinical and translational research graduate certificate at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman School of Public Health, now an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and lead author of the study.

«Our research is making a real difference to understanding what causes melanoma and ultimately therefore how to prevent and treat melanoma and is a prime example of how genomics can transform public health,» says Professor Julia Newton Bishop, co-senior author from the University of Leeds.

Herbenick and her research team, including Associate Professor Brian Dodge from the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington, conducted the OMGYES Sexual Pleasure Report: Women and Touch with a focus on discovering a greater understanding of women's sexual pleasure and orgasm.

The research team, led by Joseph Graziano, PhD, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, assessed 272 children in grades 3 - 5, who were, on average, 10 years old, from three school districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and cooking.

John Mandrola, cardiologist, Baptist Health Louisville; and Guodong Liu, assistant professor of public health sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, also participated in this resHealth Louisville; and Guodong Liu, assistant professor of public health sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, also participated in this reshealth sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, also participated in this research.

«We had hoped the new pharmacotherapy would help more people quit, but this is not what is happening,» said lead author Shu - Hong Zhu, PhD, a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and director of Center for Research and Intervention in Tobacco Control at UC San Diego.

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Public health and research efforts must focus more intensely on identifying and implementing additional or new interventions that halt transmission in hospitals and community settings,» says Neel R. Gandhi, MD, associate professor of epidemiology at Emory's Rollins School of Public Hhealth and research efforts must focus more intensely on identifying and implementing additional or new interventions that halt transmission in hospitals and community settings,» says Neel R. Gandhi, MD, associate professor of epidemiology at Emory's Rollins School of Public HealthHealth.

«Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem and identifying new drug targets and candidate drugs is a major priority,» said David S. Perlin, Executive Director and Professor at the Public Health Research Institute and Rutgers Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the International Center for Public Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Nhealth problem and identifying new drug targets and candidate drugs is a major priority,» said David S. Perlin, Executive Director and Professor at the Public Health Research Institute and Rutgers Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the International Center for Public Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in NHealth Research Institute and Rutgers Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the International Center for Public Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in NHealth at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark.

We believe that genetic variation is an important factor contributing to this risk or resilience,» said senior author Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who leads the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute.

A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine led by San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health Associate Research Professor John W. Ayers delved into Americans» internet search history in the days after the series aired, and found that queries for suicide and how to commit suicide spiked in the show's wake.

«Our results, based on in - depth interviews with seniors and their caregivers, add to a growing body of evidence that this decline in dementia risk is a real phenomenon, and that the expected future growth in the burden of dementia may not be as extensive as once thought,» says lead author Kenneth Langa, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the U-M Medical School, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health, and a research investigator at the VA Ann Arbor HealthcareResearch and School of Public Health, and a research investigator at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcareresearch investigator at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

The study's authors are Dr. Scott Weaver, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics; Amelia Jazwa, research coordinator; Dr. Lucy Popova, assistant professor of health promotion & behavior; Dr. Richard Rothenberg, Regents» Professor of epidemiology & biostatistics, and Dean Michael Eriksen, all of the School of Public Health at Georgia State; and Dr. Paul Slovic of Decision Research and the University oprofessor of epidemiology and biostatistics; Amelia Jazwa, research coordinator; Dr. Lucy Popova, assistant professor of health promotion & behavior; Dr. Richard Rothenberg, Regents» Professor of epidemiology & biostatistics, and Dean Michael Eriksen, all of the School of Public Health at Georgia State; and Dr. Paul Slovic of Decision Research and the University ofresearch coordinator; Dr. Lucy Popova, assistant professor of health promotion & behavior; Dr. Richard Rothenberg, Regents» Professor of epidemiology & biostatistics, and Dean Michael Eriksen, all of the School of Public Health at Georgia State; and Dr. Paul Slovic of Decision Research and the University oprofessor of health promotion & behavior; Dr. Richard Rothenberg, Regents» Professor of epidemiology & biostatistics, and Dean Michael Eriksen, all of the School of Public Health at Georgia State; and Dr. Paul Slovic of Decision Research and the University of Ohealth promotion & behavior; Dr. Richard Rothenberg, Regents» Professor of epidemiology & biostatistics, and Dean Michael Eriksen, all of the School of Public Health at Georgia State; and Dr. Paul Slovic of Decision Research and the University oProfessor of epidemiology & biostatistics, and Dean Michael Eriksen, all of the School of Public Health at Georgia State; and Dr. Paul Slovic of Decision Research and the University of OHealth at Georgia State; and Dr. Paul Slovic of Decision Research and the University ofResearch and the University of Oregon.